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Thread started 07/05/05 4:31pm

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Alicia Keys prepares for new album...

HOLLYWOOD — While it seemed like Alicia Keys' Diary was never going to end, the songstress is finally turning to new material.

The 24-year-old Keys had extended her Diary Tour through the end of June (see "Where's Alicia Keys' Movie And Book? She's Too Busy Singing") and kept the limelight on her sophomore release when she won Best Female R&B Artist at the 2005 BET Awards earlier this week (see "Destiny's Child Give Lap Dances, Fugees End Feud At BET Awards").

But Keys is hardly stagnating. Now at home in New York, the R&B singer is ready to get back into the recording studio. She's currently prepping her forthcoming unplugged album, which will include Diary songs as well as a few new tracks (see "Alicia Keys Shoots Video With Usher, Wants To Do Live Album").

"I'm creating about three or four new songs, and I'm really excited about putting that together," Keys said. "I'm going to tape it in July and it's going to be released in October. ... One of [the tracks] is kind of classic me. Another one is like a fusion of blues-rock and soul. It's crazy! And the other one I'm thinking of doing is this particular remake that I'm not going to tell you about yet, because I don't want to say it and then it doesn't happen."

Following that project, she'll start recording her third studio album. But Keys has a few more irons in the fire, including a second book, which will be the follow-up to 2004's "Tears for Water." While she previously said the book will be strictly autobiographical, now she's saying it might have a slightly different bent.

"It'll be a more fiction-based book," she explained. "It'll be based on my life, but I want to turn it into a more fictitious character. I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally."

The wheels are starting to turn on Keys' biopic, too, in which she'll portray 1950s biracial piano prodigy Phillipa Schuyler. "[Producer] Halle [Berry's] developing the film, and it's in its screenwriting phase right now," she said. "It takes a minute for movies, you know?"

— Brandee J. Tecson, with reporting by Corey Moss
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Reply #1 posted 07/05/05 4:33pm

VoicesCarry

AliciaKeys said:

One of [the tracks] is kind of classic me.


Yeah, you're only on your 2nd album here, so check your ego. I guess you mean kind of classic stealing from real soul artists?
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Reply #2 posted 07/05/05 4:43pm

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VoicesCarry said:

AliciaKeys said:

One of [the tracks] is kind of classic me.


Yeah, you're only on your 2nd album here, so check your ego. I guess you mean kind of classic stealing from real soul artists?
[Edited 7/5/05 16:34pm]


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Reply #3 posted 07/05/05 4:47pm

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Are you guys mad at Alicia because she admires prince?
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Reply #4 posted 07/05/05 4:50pm

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kookie said:

Are you guys mad at Alicia because she admires prince?


I'm not....I just think she's highly overrated, that's all. smile
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Reply #5 posted 07/05/05 5:10pm

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AnckSuNamun said:

kookie said:

Are you guys mad at Alicia because she admires prince?


I'm not....I just think she's highly overrated, that's all. smile



That's what all the orgers say,but I think it's deeper than that wink.....
[Edited 7/5/05 17:11pm]
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Reply #6 posted 07/05/05 5:15pm

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I've been hearing a lot about Alicia's unplugged album. It's going to have covers, most of her hits, and some new stuff.
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Reply #7 posted 07/05/05 5:18pm

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That's the new Org catchphrse: "This Post Is Classic Me"

You can put a Little Richard spin on it "His post is classic me."

A P Diddy spin "We ain't gonna stop posting."

A Rick James spin: "This Post Ain't S***."
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Reply #8 posted 07/05/05 5:19pm

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That's the new Org catchphrse: "This Post Is Classic Me"

You can put a Little Richard spin on it "His post is classic me."

A P Diddy spin "We ain't gonna stop posting."

A Rick James spin: "This Post Ain't S***."

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Reply #9 posted 07/05/05 5:26pm

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kookie said:

AnckSuNamun said:



I'm not....I just think she's highly overrated, that's all. smile



That's what all the orgers say,but I think it's deeper than that wink.....
[Edited 7/5/05 17:11pm]


Well she is, imo. Her vocals are kinda weak, considering the fact that she's R/B. She just came at the right time, in the middle of the attack of the bubble gum pop tarts. People rave about how talented she is just because she can tickle three or four ivories. If Alicia didn't have the piano or looks, she'd just blend in with a bunch of artists. I can't believe how people my age are so shocked to see a newer artist who actually plays an instrument. They've been depraved, if you ask me.

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Reply #10 posted 07/05/05 5:36pm

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AnckSuNamun said:

kookie said:




That's what all the orgers say,but I think it's deeper than that wink.....
[Edited 7/5/05 17:11pm]


Well she is, imo. Her vocals are kinda weak, considering the fact that she's R/B. She just came at the right time, in the middle of the attack of the bubble gum pop tarts. People rave about how talented she is just because she can tickle three or four ivories. If Alicia didn't have the piano or looks, she'd just blend in with a bunch of artists. I can't believe how people my age are so shocked to see a newer artist who actually plays an instrument. They've been depraved, if you ask me.

typo
[Edited 7/5/05 17:28pm]


hmmm maybe you're right...
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Reply #11 posted 07/05/05 6:59pm

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Can't wait to hear it.

Alicia does get a lot of hate on here for reasons that I'm still trying to figure out. Why hate on a female artist that's trying to bring musicality and soul to overproduced pop music? She's doing her thing and I'm proud of her.

She's not the greatest AT ALL, but she does have the greatest potential. I just hate that being on a major label will probably hinder that.

And nothing is wrong with her saying "Classic Me". People complain because she doens't broaden her sound enough, and now the complaints are because she's saying that she has a sound?
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Reply #12 posted 07/05/05 7:08pm

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dragondayz said:

Alicia does get a lot of hate on here for reasons that I'm still trying to figure out. Why hate on a female artist that's trying to bring musicality and soul to overproduced pop music? She's doing her thing and I'm proud of her.


Because we've heard too much authentic musicality and soul to buy into her.

Everything she does is a complete rip-off of real soul music. But everyone is so desperate for a young, hot mainstream R&B artist who knows how to play an instrument that people buy into her schtick.

dragondayz said:

And nothing is wrong with her saying "Classic Me". People complain because she doens't broaden her sound enough, and now the complaints are because she's saying that she has a sound?


Her sound isn't her sound, it's the sound of the real pioneers in soul and R&B. Did you miss the little fact that she lifted the melody line from JB's "It's A Man's Man's Man's World" for "Fallin'", for example?
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Reply #13 posted 07/05/05 7:17pm

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VoicesCarry said:

dragondayz said:

Alicia does get a lot of hate on here for reasons that I'm still trying to figure out. Why hate on a female artist that's trying to bring musicality and soul to overproduced pop music? She's doing her thing and I'm proud of her.


Because we've heard too much authentic musicality and soul to buy into her.

Everything she does is a complete rip-off of real soul music. But everyone is so desperate for a young, hot mainstream R&B artist who knows how to play an instrument that people buy into her schtick.

dragondayz said:

Alicia does get a lot of hate on here for reasons that I'm still trying to figure out. Why hate on a female artist that's trying to bring musicality and soul to overproduced pop music? She's doing her thing and I'm proud of her.

[Edited 7/5/05 19:08pm]


Or they could buy into her schtick simply because they like her songs?! That theory doesn't seem too far fetched.

Really, every artist emulates an artist from the past. You or nobody else can claim it as being false.

Although she emulates a little of Prince, Stevie, Roberta, Aretha, Isaac, that Patrice lady and many others lol, she still manages to have her own sound and her own way of doing things.

The titles that they give her like "genius" and "prodigy" can be a bit crazy but she's in a competitive business and people ahead of her and many of our other A-list artists of this generation are constantly looking for ways to seperate this one from that one. That's Alicia's scheme but I don't totally blame her for it and I honestly like a lot of her music. That's why I buy the albums.
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Reply #14 posted 07/05/05 7:20pm

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She can sing

She can play

She can compose

She can look good doing it


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Reply #15 posted 07/05/05 7:25pm

VoicesCarry

dragondayz said:

Or they could buy into her schtick simply because they like her songs?! That theory doesn't seem too far fetched.


I'm not saying I don't like Alicia's songs, but there's a difference between liking her songs and buying into her schtick ie. believing she's all she's claimed to be.

dragondayz said:

Really, every artist emulates an artist from the past. You or nobody else can claim it as being false.


Every artist is influenced by artists from the past, but no, not every artist emulates (which means IMITATES) artists from the past.

dragondayz said:

Although she emulates a little of Prince, Stevie, Roberta, Aretha, Isaac, that Patrice lady and many others lol, she still manages to have her own sound and her own way of doing things.


So describe "Alicia's sound" to me. I'd really like to know how any part of it is original in any way.

dragondayz said:

The titles that they give her like "genius" and "prodigy" can be a bit crazy


Certainly more than "a bit". Terms like that should be reserved for artists such as Meshell. But the industry is currently sold on image and not talent, and so Alicia wins.

dragondayz said:

but she's in a competitive business and people ahead of her and many of our other A-list artists of this generation are constantly looking for ways to seperate this one from that one.


Yeah, and Alicia's "the talented one". That says a lot more about the pathetic state of the industry than it does about her. 30 years ago she'd be singing in a bar somewhere, ya know.

dragondayz said:

That's Alicia's scheme but I don't totally blame her for it


Neither do I. Alicia needs to pay the bills.

dragondayz said:

and I honestly like a lot of her music. That's why I buy the albums.


Fair enough.
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Reply #16 posted 07/05/05 7:33pm

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Well I meant influenced.

Alicia has her own sound because she mixes hip hop, soul, and classical and I don't recall it being done many times before. She even mixes a bit of jazz and gospel in there at times. Listn to the organs in the back of her song Diary. I think she majored in choir, which taught mostly gospel, in her high school so that's the bit of grit in her voice.

I've never heard a Karma type track or even a Fallin type song done before. Yeah she took bits of James Brown song but she put hip hop in it and added her own little twist...in my opinion.
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Reply #17 posted 07/05/05 7:36pm

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dragondayz said:

Well I meant influenced.

Alicia has her own sound because she mixes hip hop, soul, and classical and I don't recall it being done many times before. She even mixes a bit of jazz and gospel in there at times. Listn to the organs in the back of her song Diary. I think she majored in choir, which taught mostly gospel, in her high school so that's the bit of grit in her voice.

I've never heard a Karma type track or even a Fallin type song done before. Yeah she took bits of James Brown song but she put hip hop in it and added her own little twist...in my opinion.


Ok, you ever heard "It's A Man's Man's Man's World"? Because structurally, it's essentially "Fallin'".

I think maybe once you hear a bit more music, you'll change your mind. There really is nothing original about Alicia's songs, her instrumentation, or her production. I donno, I think I've just heard too much to appreciate Alicia. She's so superficial and talentless when you compare her to some of the greats working right now. I come back to Meshell but I wish she'd come out in the 70's because she'd actually have a chance at the mainstream. I have no problem with Alicia, whose music is harmless although completely derivative. Same thing goes for an artist like Mariah Carey. My problem is more with how they are promoting her as "THE BEST THING EVAR!!!", and she's going along with it as if she actually believes it.

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Reply #18 posted 07/05/05 8:19pm

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she's alright. I just cant get past those hairy chest pics that were posted on here a while back...
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Reply #19 posted 07/05/05 8:46pm

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ok yall just because when she first got started people promoted her as a prodigy, genious, female stevie, the shit all that. and because she didn't live up to what people were claiming her to be yall wanna hate? that aint right. that aint alicia's fault that the label, press and all them put that on her. thats their fault. if u gonna like her thats cool. hate her? thats cool too, but realize that the hype aint her fault. and either except her for what she actually is..or go listen to somebody u like.
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Reply #20 posted 07/05/05 9:13pm

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That promotion totally turns me off. I wasn't able to make myself buy The Diary, just because it seemed like a false promise from the get-go.
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Reply #21 posted 07/05/05 9:54pm

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She can sing

She can play

She can compose

She can look good doing it


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Reply #22 posted 07/05/05 11:33pm

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Her "Classic sound"? Stevie had been performing and writing for years before he hit his classic sound in the early 70's.

Being overly marketed doesn't mean your deep, interesting or a great songwriter. Clive Davis has a product and her name is Alicia Keys and she is a pretty girl who is a classically trained pianist and he has presented her to the world as the next "Roberta Flack" or "the Female Stevie" disbelief. She's trying so desperately to turn into what she is being marketed as.....A so called "savior of soul music." Anytime you are labeled as the "next this or that" and you buy into that you're fucked. Sure Prince, Madonna, and Michael borrowed and immulated certain lengends, BUT every single last one of the "HOLY TRINITY" HAD THEIR OWN PERSONALITIES AND WERE "IN CHARGE" OF THEIR OWN SOUND & IMAGE. Can AK play the piano, yes! can she sing, yes! The girl is not even in the same galaxy of "true greatness" or "true genius". Between having her mug at every red carpet event, her lyrically un-imaginative beat-driven songs, her sloppy overly-eager to please performances, and all the uneccessary cheesey PR crap Clive has her doing, I just don't GET A SENSE OF WHO SHE IS. I listened to the "Diary" album twice, I've seen her perform live and I'm just not convinced. She just seems so damn PHONEY to me. I saw her on a tv show once and she said "she wanted to get into writing more provocative lyrics". That tripped me out! You don't plan to be provocative...you either are or you aren't. Stevie Wonder said that "Ordinary People" by John legend was the best song he has heard all year and he wish he'd written it. I don't hear any of "her" idols saying that about her songs. Her songs could be performed by anybody and they are no more or less interesting than any other R&B/Hip Hop songs that's out there. I hope she grows into the person she is aspiring to be, but right now I find her annoying & boring. zzz

If opinion makes me a hater, then I'll just keep sipping my hater-ade until this chick puts out a fierce album that lives up to her hype. When she does, I'll buy it.
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Reply #23 posted 07/05/05 11:46pm

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MistyCotton said:

Her "Classic sound"? Stevie had been performing and writing for years before he hit his classic sound in the early 70's.

Being overly marketed doesn't mean your deep, interesting or a great songwriter. Clive Davis has a product and her name is Alicia Keys and she is a pretty girl who is a classically trained pianist and he has presented her to the world as the next "Roberta Flack" or "the Female Stevie" disbelief. She's trying so desperately to turn into what she is being marketed as.....A so called "savior of soul music." Anytime you are labeled as the "next this or that" and you buy into that you're fucked. Sure Prince, Madonna, and Michael borrowed and immulated certain lengends, BUT every single last one of the "HOLY TRINITY" HAD THEIR OWN PERSONALITIES AND WERE "IN CHARGE" OF THEIR OWN SOUND & IMAGE. Can AK play the piano, yes! can she sing, yes! The girl is not even in the same galaxy of "true greatness" or "true genius". Between having her mug at every red carpet event, her lyrically un-imaginative beat-driven songs, her sloppy overly-eager to please performances, and all the uneccessary cheesey PR crap Clive has her doing, I just don't GET A SENSE OF WHO SHE IS. I listened to the "Diary" album twice, I've seen her perform live and I'm just not convinced. She just seems so damn PHONEY to me. I saw her on a tv show once and she said "she wanted to get into writing more provocative lyrics". That tripped me out! You don't plan to be provocative...you either are or you aren't. Stevie Wonder said that "Ordinary People" by John legend was the best song he has heard all year and he wish he'd written it. I don't hear any of "her" idols saying that about her songs. Her songs could be performed by anybody and they are no more or less interesting than any other R&B/Hip Hop songs that's out there. I hope she grows into the person she is aspiring to be, but right now I find her annoying & boring. zzz

If opinion makes me a hater, then I'll just keep sipping my hater-ade until this chick puts out a fierce album that lives up to her hype. When she does, I'll buy it.


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Keys ain't no savior of soul. Songs like "Girlfriend" and "My Boo" sound like typical mainstream R&B and don't even get me started on that "thug" thing she had and probably still has goin' on.
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Reply #24 posted 07/06/05 1:27am

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Y'all can be some hating ass folks, i swear...the org can be venomous....



Y dont we actually give her a chance to develop into her own before we brush her off?
I think people are excited about her because she shows a lot of promise; probably more than anything else strutting round these parts nowadays.

Granted,It was a little premature to call one of your own songs classic with a grand total of two albums under your belt, but we ALL know that girl aint had a reality check in a spell...Dont blame her, blame the yesmen.



We all know that looks count-- and obviously they go a long way, but lets not act like they carry you that far...something about her sound (as remeniscent as it is of preceding acts ie. Gladys, P, JB, Stevie, Roberta et al.) sets her apart from the rest-- now if she could only develop her talent and come more onto an artistic level while keeping
her pop appeal hmmm-- she'd be unlike any artist we've seen recently.

If Jennifer Lopez can live, so can this bitch!


And I'm spent. zzz
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Reply #25 posted 07/06/05 2:22am

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I just don't think I am ready for another Alicia album this year. She milked the shit out of "Diary" all throughout 2004 into 2005 & the same for Songs In A Minor. I thought I was gonna die if I'd seen another "If I Aint Got You" or "Fallen" performance or heard it on the radio.
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tho' I battled blind
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love it is a fate resigned

Over futile odds
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Reply #26 posted 07/06/05 2:34am

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Nobody doubts that Alicia has talent.But do they have to give her multiple Grammys everytime she releases a new album?! Sure,she has a few decent singles,but her music is not that original,deep or soulful.In the old days,artists were allowed to grow and develop before we started calling them "genuises" and giving them a handful of Grammys.These days,a female artist who plays piano yet releases mediocre,derivative R&B songs (some of which are based on samples) is hyped up as "the next big thing".Even Prince pointed out that it took him five albums before he appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.Alicia releases one album,and already she's on Rolling Stone.Thanks to the Clive Davis/Clear Channel hype machine,she is now officially the female Stevie Wonder rolleyes

It's ridiculous.
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Reply #27 posted 07/06/05 2:46am

Scorpion

She already has 9 Grammys, some of music's greatest don't even have that many.
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love it is a fate resigned

Over futile odds
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Reply #28 posted 07/06/05 3:02am

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Scorpion said:

She already has 9 Grammys, some of music's greatest don't even have that many.



Exactly.That's absurd.
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Reply #29 posted 07/06/05 3:58am

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I think people are excited about her because she shows a lot of promise; probably more than anything else strutting round these parts nowadays. now if she could only develop her talent and come more onto an artistic level while keeping
her pop appeal -- she'd be unlike any artist we've seen recently.


I'm sorry, do you listen to a variety of music or do you just listen to whatever shit is playing on mainstream radio? Because she is hardly the best thing out there.
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